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An interview with U.S. Supreme Court Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is presented. When asked if her mother prepared her to face discrimination, she mentioned that discrimination against Jews was inevitable so her mother did not have a choice. She noted that the two important lessons from her mother that made her stand out was to be independent and to be a lady. She discusses the Ginsburg Rule, the use of the umpire analogy to describe judging, the most important legislation in the past term in her opinion which is the Voting Rights Act.

The article focuses on a summer enrichment program sponsored by a faculty from Kean University in Union, New Jersey which enabled mathematics to be applied to real-life architecture and design. It states that the main objective of the program was to provide a professional development opportunity for both teachers and preservice teachers as well as to give accelerated learners a chance to have authentic hands-on experience on areas of data analysis, measurement and proportionality.

In 1540, in Ingolstadt, Germany, the influential astronomer and printer Peter Apian produced the Astronomicum Caesareum: a printed and hand-coloured astronomical book visualising the Ptolemaic universe through the use of diagrams and wheelcharts, worthy of his imperial patron, Charles V. About 130 copies have survived to this day, with varying degrees of paper quality and level of decoration, and only eleven volumes are considered deluxe copies. We thoroughly analysed one deluxe volume held at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, and compared the results with four (one deluxe and three standard) other copies from institutions in the UK. A non-invasive analytical protocol was applied, including extensive microscopy, fibre-optic reflectance spectroscopy (FORS), X-ray spectroscopy (XRF), macroscale XRF (MA-XRF) and Raman spectroscopy. The most interesting pages were chosen based on art-historical evidence and the variety of the colour palette, including on volvelles (wheelcharts) and coats of arms. Following a systematic approach, we analysed the same pages in each volume, gathering information on the colour palette in all the volumes. The type of paper and the presence of watermarks were also documented. A wide range of materials was identified in the five copies, including red, purple and yellow organic dyes, lead white, verdigris, vermilion, azurite, indigo, smalt, and lead–tin yellow. Mosaic gold was used to embellish certain paint passages in the deluxe volumes and metals (gold and silver) were applied on some pages. The comprehensive findings were essential to identify specific traits related to Apian's workshop, to differentiate deluxe from standard copies, to suggest an order of production of the copies, and to provide new information on this landmark book and more generally in an under-researched field of study. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Presents a letter to the editor on floor buttons in an elevator.